Local RCBO protecting ring final alteration. Discussion ThreadLocal RCBO protecting ring final alteration. Electrical Advice
Hi
I completed a job recently where a hotel reception had a new desk fitted. The old desk dado was supplied via an RCD spur from the existing ring. This ring is fed from one of the very old Merlin single phase boards which I’ve been told you cannot retrofit Schneider ic60n RCBO’s in. I had to remove a couple of sockets including the existing Rcd spur from a wall backing on to a riser as the new desk needed to be flush to this wall. The existing ring was fed in pvc tube down the riser and rear entry to the sockets. Instead of using an Rcd spur to protect my alteration at this point (x4 sockets 2.5 radial in dado) is there a regs issue with instead fitting a single module plastic enclosure with a B16 RCBO - no main switch just the ring terminated straight into the RCBO? - circuit is supplied via C32 MCB. (Enclosure mounted in the riser with 2.5 LSF glanded out the bottom and penetrating the wall through to the desk dado.
Interested to hear thoughts on this.
Thanks
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Hi
I completed a job recently where a hotel reception had a new desk fitted. The old desk dado was supplied via an RCD spur from the existing ring. This ring is fed from one of the very old Merlin single phase boards which I’ve been told you cannot retrofit Schneider ic60n RCBO’s in. I had to remove a couple of sockets including the existing Rcd spur from a wall backing on to a riser as the new desk needed to be flush to this wall. The existing ring was fed in pvc tube down the riser and rear entry to the sockets. Instead of using an Rcd spur to protect my alteration at this point (x4 sockets 2.5 radial in dado) is there a regs issue with instead fitting a single module plastic enclosure with a B16 RCBO - no main switch just the ring terminated straight into the RCBO? - circuit is supplied via C32 MCB. (Enclosure mounted in the riser with 2.5 LSF glanded out the bottom and penetrating the wall through to the desk dado.
Interested to hear thoughts on this.
Thanks
Local RCBO protecting ring final alteration. for the original thread on Electricians Forums
